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  • Kenya Truth Commission Report Links Leaders to Abuses

    NAIROBI -- A long-awaited report from Kenya’s Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission (TJRC) has linked several of Kenya’s leaders, including current President Uhuru Kenyatta, to abuses committed throughout the country’s history. The commission has called for further investigation of those responsible for these crimes in an effort to bring ...

  • Kenya Uhuru to attend AU summit in Addis Ababa

    African Union (AU) Heads of State and Government. The AU summit coincides with the Golden Jubilee celebrations of the OAU-AU. The Summit theme ?Pan-Africanism and the African Renaissance? raises the profile of the AU and also provides a mobilising point for uniting different actors including citizens, governments and the private sector towards political and economic prosperity. Uhuru ...

  • Polio cases found in Kenya and Somalia WHO says

    NAIROBI, Kenya -; The World Health Organization says the Horn of Africa is experiencing an outbreak of polio with cases confirmed in Kenya and ...

  • Kenyas 20-year T-bond yield falls to 12.981 pct

    Treasury bond fell to 12.981 percent at auction from 13.694 percent at its last sale in January, the central bank said on Wednesday. The central bank said it received bids worth a total 25.88 billion shillings for the 20-year bond. It had offered a 10 billion shillings and accepted 10.13 billion shillings. The bank said it plans to auction bonds worth a total 15 billion shillings in June, ...

  • Kenyan lender IM looks to list shares by June

    NAIROBI | Wed May 22, 2013 11:43am EDT NAIROBI May 22 (Reuters) - Kenyan lender I&M plans to list shares on the stock market by next month after it completed a merger with small investment company City Trust, I&M said on Wednesday. I&M and City Trust combined through a share swap and the new company, named I&M Holdings Limited, holds the assets of both banks. "The transaction ...

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The Master [Blu-Ray]

The Master [Blu-Ray]

There is no questionnone at all, in my mind at leastthat Paul Thomas Andersons The Master is a magnificently ambitious film. The first feature production to be shot in 65mm since Kenneth Branaghs Hamlet in 1996, it mixes exquisite period recreation of the post-World War II Eisenh ... ...

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  • East Africa EALA Urges Leaders to Assent to One Stop Border Posts Bill

    The East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) MPs have appealed to regional heads of state to urgently assent to the long-awaited One Stop Border Posts Bill that was passed last year in Kigali to facilitate trade and movement of people within the Community. The former Busiro East MP and now member of EALA ,Susan Nakawuki , told journalists that the bill will remove bureaucracies at the border ...

  • Kenya Three MPs claim innocence over TJRC report

    Nairobi, Kenya: Three MPs adversely named in the Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission (TJRC) report have pleaded innocence over claims of perpetrating human rights ...

  • Kenyan truth panel urges president to apologise

    Kenya's reconciliation commission has said the president, security forces and judiciary should publicly apologise for past abuses going back 50 years, its final report seen Wednesday said. Set up after bloody post-election violence in 2007-08, Kenya's Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission (TJRC) handed over its weighty four-volume report -- containing tens of thousands of ...

  • Kenya President Uhuru promises action on Tana Delta killings

    Tana Delta and recommends prosecution of the perpetrators. The Judicial Commission appointed by the immediate former President Mwai Kibaki was mandated to investigate the ethnic violence that occurred ...

  • Kenyan farmers reap the benefits of technology

    John Mwangi stands in his wooden shed counting bags of maize neatly bundled in burlap. The 90kg bags sit on slats raised two feet off the earthen floor, protecting the maize from damp and rodents. A few hens scratch the earth, pecking at the grains that have fallen out. The 44-year-old farmer finishes counting at 149 and takes out his cellphone. He enters the number into a message and hits the ...

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